First edition

André POTTIER

La Normandie illustrée. Monuments, sites et costumes de la Seine-Inférieure, de l'Eure, du ...

Charpentier, Nantes 1852, In-Folio (35x47cm), relié.

First edition, copiously illustrated with a map in color, 5 frontispieces, 150 boards with a bistre bottom by F. Benoist, including 22 costumes designed and engraved by Lalaisse.
Publisher's binding in half blue shagreen to flat of percaline.

1 800 €

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Charles de BROSSES

Lettres sur l'Italie

Chez Ponthieu, à Paris 1799 (An VII), In-8 (12,5x19,5cm), viij, 415pp. et (4) 455pp. et (4) 400pp., relié.

First edition.
Binding half brown sheepskin speckled flat flamed yellow paper, cunning pastiche of the late nineteenth. Smooth back decorated with fat and lean fillets. Black shagreen pieces. Tiny traces of friction. Nice copy, very fresh.

1 300 €

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Frances BROOKE

Histoire d'Emilie Montague

ChezChanguion, A Amsterdam 1770, in-12 (10x16,5cm), (4) 192pp. ; (2) 193-384p. et (2) 162pp. (2) ; (2) 156pp., 4 parties reliées en 2 volumes.

Original French edition, rare, translated by Jean-Baptiste Robinet, after the English premiere published in 1769. Four beautiful title pages engraved and separated. Changuion catalog in fine of the third part.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with ornate nerves. title [...]

650 €

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Joseph Bernard Marquis de CHABERT

Voyage fait par ordre du Roi en 1750 et 1751, dans l'Amérique septentrionale, pour rectifier les ...

De Imprimerie Royale, à Paris 1753, In-4 (20x26cm), (2) viij, 288pp. (10), relié.

First edition
Copy to the figure and arms of Louis XV.
Binding full brown marbled and glossy brown sheepskin.

4 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Lawrence DURRELL

Carte postale autographe inédite signée de Lawrence Durrell à son amante française : "je n'aime ...

22 juillet 1970, 14,6x10,1cm, une feuille.

After many years spent in Greece, Egypt and Rhodes, travel writer Lawrence Durrell was forced to flee Cyprus following popular uprisings that led the island to independence. With only a shirt and a typewriter, but with the success of his Bitter Lemons novels, he arrived in France in 1956 and [...]

350 €

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First edition, Signed book

(Oscar EPFS), Lawrence DURRELL

Deux gouaches originales recto-verso signées offertes à son amante française

1968, 66x47,4cm, une feuille.

Two original double-sided gouaches signed, presented to his French lover

1968 | 66 x 47.4cm | single sheet

Original double-sided gouaches on thick paper, signed and dated 1968, bearing an autograph inscription.
Skillfull repairs.
Exceptional original [...]

1 800 €

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First edition, Signed book

Maurice BEJART

Journal intime autographe

1969, 16,8x21,6cm, carnet en spirales.

Handwritten personal diary for the year 1969

8 000 €

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First edition

John BARROW

Voyage dans la partie méridionale de l'Afrique ; fait dans les années 1797 et 1798

Dentu, Paris 1801, In-8 (12,5x20,7cm), xvj, 403pp. (1) et (4) 326pp. (2), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition
Bindings in full brown sheepskin vintage flamed. Smooth back decorated with 2 florets and 2 grotesque boxes, and multiple wheels. Title pieces in red morocco, pieces of tomaison in morocco green. Frieze framing on the boards. Epidermures on the boards, near the external borders. [...]

1 000 €

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